You need to provide the complete URL for your Sitemap on this line. They will pick it up --wherever you put it in your robots.txt file. This directive is not specific to user-agent. If you have multiple Sitemaps, you can point to your Sitemap index file on this line.

Details about the Sitemaps protocol including this addition are available on the protocol website here: http://www.sitemaps.org.

The Google sitemap invention and protocol is a great SEO tool for your web site or blog. We have used this on our eggheadcafe.com site since the inception of sitemaps. On my IttyUrl.net site, i actually have a page that reads and caches my own autogenerated sitemap xml and turns it into a "page of links" - just so non-sitemap bot crawlers have something to consume.

Now that MSN, Yahoo and Google are all digesting this stuff, you've got yourself a triple with the same amount of effort as just getting on to first base.

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I am a former Microsoft C# .NET MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for 10 years , author, and UnEducator based in the Orlando Florida area. I write mostly about .NET, formerly for eggheadcafe and currently at my programming blog at peterbromberg.net. I'm an ex-jazz musician and stockbroker who dreams of being a philanthropist and paying less in taxes. I believe in the US Constitution and free-market "Austrian" economic theories. I'm also a "climate realist" and believe in good science, which is never "settled".

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